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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. The organizational form of a literary work.
Sestet
Exposition
Structure
Oxymoron
2. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Ode
Apostrophe
Connotation
Parody
3. A character struggles against some outside force.
Lyric Poem
Motif
External Conflict
Spondee
4. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.
Sestina
Syntax
Alliteration
Dialect
5. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.
Style
Free Verse
Persona
Comic Relief
6. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.
Octave
Caesura
Ode
Mood
7. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.
Rhyme
Aside
Folklore
Myth
8. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Motif
Free Verse
Epigram
Exposition
9. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Theme
Onomatopoeia
Act
Parody
10. The main character of a literary work.
Connotation
Metonymy
Protagonist
Point of View
11. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.
Metonymy
Ode
Irony
Rhyme
12. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.
Aside
Lyric Poem
Analogy
Solioquy
13. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.
Plot
Parable
Spondee
Falling Action
14. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Oxymoron
Parable
Simile
Symbolism
15. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.
Satire
Convention
Spondee
Syntax
16. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.
Mood
Enjambment
Theme
Rhythm
17. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.
Situational Irony
Spondee
Denotation
Understatement
18. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
Sonnet
Anapest
Motif
Iamb
19. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.
Iamb
Voice
Theme
Blank Verse
20. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.
Parody
Elision
Stereotype
Motif
21. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.
Conceit
Dialect
Understatement
Structure
22. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.
Falling Meter
Symbol
Parallelism
Epiphany
23. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.
Recognition
Conflict
Antagonist
External Conflict
24. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.
Foil
Persona
Caesura
Situational Irony
25. What a story or play is about.
Point of View
Subject
Alliteration
Analogy
26. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.
Myth
Epiphany
Elegy
Connotation
27. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.
1st Person
Metaphor
Convention
Mood
28. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.
Alliteration
Tone
Trochee
Pyrrhic
29. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.
Iamb
Couplet
Aubade
Internal Conflict
30. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Ode
Sonnet
Connotation
Internal Conflict
31. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.
Free Verse
Climax
Epic
Elegy
32. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.
Audience
Sestina
Reversal
Free Verse
33. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
Conflict
Mood
Exposition
Foil
34. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.
Assonance
Foot
Parallelism
Sestet
35. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.
Aside
Connotation
Onomatopoeia
Foreshadowing
36. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
External Conflict
Spondee
Paradox
Author's Purpose
37. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.
Blank Verse
Quatrain
Dramatic Irony
Octave
38. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.
Motif
Tone
Hyperbole
Fiction
39. A short saying with a moral.
Aphorism
Climax
Apostrophe
Symbolism
40. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.
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41. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.
Syntax
Fiction
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Parable
42. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.
Conflict
Style
Author's Purpose
Figurative Language
43. The selection of words in a literary work.
Meter
Ode
Foil
Diction
44. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Motif
Meter
Anapest
Exposition
45. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
Metaphor
Solioquy
Parody
Character
46. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Blank Verse
Structure
Symbol
Dactyl
47. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.
Comic Relief
Folklore
Apostrophe
Aphorism
48. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
Situational Irony
1st Person
Oxymoron
Image
49. The person who 'tells' the story.
Lyric Poem
Repetition
Narrator
Pyrrhic
50. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Villanelle
Point of View
Onomatopoeia
Pyrrhic